Mount Everest is the highest point on earth, it is 8848 m/29,028 ft tall, standing 5 and 1/2 miles above sea level. Mt. Everest became named after Sir George Everest, the British surveyor general of India,. Everest, in Tibet Everest is known as Chomolungma and Nepali people called Sagarmatha. Mt. Everest is located half in Nepal and half in Tibet. From Nepal Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and from New Zealand Edmund Hillary were the first climber of Everest, via the South-East Ridge Route on 29th May 1953. Ms. Junko Tabei who is from Japan climbed Everest via the South-East Ridge and she became the first climber of Everest. Mr. Reinhold Messner from Italy was a first solo climber via the North Col to the North face, he climbed on 8-20-1980. Mr. Reinhold Messner from Italy and Mr. Peter Habeler from Austria were the first climbers who made the ascent without bottled oxygen.